James A. Gary
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James A. Gary was an American politician and businessman who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President William McKinley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James A. Gary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5676874 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James A. Gary Context triple: [Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C., hasNotableBurials, James A. Gary]
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A.
James R. Rice
James R. Rice is a prominent American engineer and applied mechanician renowned for his foundational contributions to fracture mechanics and solid mechanics.
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B.
William C. Gordon
William C. Gordon was an American lawyer-turned-crime novelist best known for his San Francisco–set detective fiction and his marriage to Chilean author Isabel Allende.
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C.
William A. McGonagle
William A. McGonagle was an American businessman best known as one of the founders of the multinational manufacturing and technology company 3M.
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D.
James B. McNamara
James B. McNamara was an American labor union activist best known for his role in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, a pivotal event in early 20th-century labor history.
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E.
James L. Wilmeth
James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James A. Gary Target entity description: James A. Gary was an American politician and businessman who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President William McKinley.
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A.
James R. Rice
James R. Rice is a prominent American engineer and applied mechanician renowned for his foundational contributions to fracture mechanics and solid mechanics.
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B.
William C. Gordon
William C. Gordon was an American lawyer-turned-crime novelist best known for his San Francisco–set detective fiction and his marriage to Chilean author Isabel Allende.
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C.
William A. McGonagle
William A. McGonagle was an American businessman best known as one of the founders of the multinational manufacturing and technology company 3M.
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D.
James B. McNamara
James B. McNamara was an American labor union activist best known for his role in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, a pivotal event in early 20th-century labor history.
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E.
James L. Wilmeth
James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| appointedBy | William McKinley ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
United States Post Office Department
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linked to:
Post Office Department
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| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Republican Party (United States)
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linked to:
Republican Party
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| notableWork | service as U.S. Postmaster General under President William McKinley ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States Postmaster General
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linked to:
Postmaster General of the United States
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| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: James A. Gary Description of subject: James A. Gary was an American politician and businessman who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President William McKinley.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.